UPDATE: I have just added another animation option (hop), you can check it out here.

cmatrix has it’s own features, and has most certainly been an inspiration. At first I made a project as a matrix-clone, in c.

Later on I added an extra feature in another project, rendering ascii-art in the foreground. In this step I tried taking a step further on.

I am a linux user, this is a FOSS project that I created.

This is a project that makes my linux experience more pleasant.

Is this a project that might interest other linux users, or might make their experience better?

Judging from the 49 upvotes so far, yes.

Do you share the same opinion? I don’t know.

If not, feel free to downvote, and/or move on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccqlEQBE-bY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccqlEQBE-bY

I stand corrected.

A cron job would not be a bad idea.

piper

Indeed piper performs very well. Thank you for the input, I will most certainly consider adding the option to select tts engine in the near future, piper sounds totally worth it.

speech-dispatcher

If you are referring to locally generated speech synthesis, the respecting outcome as far as I am concerned generally sounds generally poorer, and is more difficult to manage. However you can check out the original project https://gitlab.com/christosangel/sapo, where the audio files are generated locally.

Do you mean an option to choose between various tts methods?

And, as far as

send-your-text-to-Microsoft bit

goes, well, if MS wants a copy of Brothers Karamazov, they can save themselves the trouble and get it here , it is free https://www.gutenberg.org/

I totally undersand what you are saying. Initially, the original project used local text-to-speech, but was less than perfect, slower and cpu-costly.

You can check it out here https://gitlab.com/christosangel/sapo

Once a FOSS solution gets better and more usable, swapping the tts conversion is not a great deal.

Sure, it is a Potatomatic 4000, 2nd edition. No, not Alacrity. Thx though.

I have no idea. On an old potato laptop I tried it on it works ok, if I rush the keys, it is flickering a little.

This is a long list of terminal goodies: https://github.com/toolleeo/cli-apps/

Also, check the games that I have written, in the same spirit as this one:

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/tui-sudoku

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/wordle

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/ladder

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/mneme

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/tui-mines

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/spelion

Someone should come up with a new distro with the name potatOS, just for cases like this .

Fear not, there are no scary commands in this script.

There is, if you like fzf, or if you are not comfortable with vim keybindings. Still, Ranger is awesome.

Well, after a quick search, from that source, I found that :

…A .theme file is a .ini text file that is divided into sections, which specify visual elements that appear on a Windows desktop. Section names are wrapped in brackets ([]) in the .ini file.

I believe that the themes.txt file has not much to do with the above, furthermore, confusion between the two does not sound a good idea. What is more, one can say that file names such as themes.txt and current_theme.txt are quite descriptive and leave no doubts about their function. However, I think I understand your point of view. Perhaps I would consider renaming these in the future.

Well, there is just one themes.txt file, created inside .config/basht/ directory. There is no particular reason why it should not be a .txt. Would you suggest another solution?